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Opinion | Cremation music – NRC
I write life stories for funerals and therefore have some experience with the colorful revolution within cremation music. Live Tyrolean yodelling, a CD full of war planes flying overhead, rapping…
Opinion | City mom – NRC
For the reunion of the childbirth puffing course, we took our one-year-old offspring to the baby play Meh in Amsterdam. You could show your child around the farm while singing…
Column | Distraction gossip – NRC
The ‘Pinball Machine of the Nation’ Joost Klein presented his Eurovision Song Contest song ‘Europapa’ last Thursday and he did so cheerfully. With shoulder pads, a Dutch flag and his…
Opinion | Fairy tale – NRC
Four years after the corona outbreak, these are the bizarre news reports of the new normal. In Antarctica, two seagulls threaten countless penguins with bird flu. In India, a very…
Column | Birthday – NRC
It was my father-in-law’s birthday. He turned 83. We celebrated it at café de Witte Zwaan in Berlicum. This was the first time we all got together after my father-in-law’s…
Opinion | Fumbling – NRC
I’m picking up my wife from work on Monday, because of the rain. I’m 10 minutes early. A strange scene unfolds in the parking lot. A man arrives, gets into…
‘A fresh sweet drink’ – NRC
A few years ago I read a recipe for limoncello NRC. During the next holiday in Italy I bought a few bottles of 95 percent alcohol to make limoncello at…
Opinion | Still more fun – NRC
My colleague is busy talking to the Tax Authorities. Arranging all types of tax in one go if you set up a BV, you think it’s a piece of cake.…
Opinion | Stylish – NRC
The most expensive part of the city. Between Martinitoren and the money street full of bank ATMs, on the Grote Markt in Groningen. The pavement is being replaced. Despite wind…
Opinion | Doctor Beeldbel – NRC
My mother-in-law was born in 1933, this year she will be 91, deo volente. She is deteriorating mentally. The operation of washing machine, dryer, iPad and TV have become virtually…